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Tallinn, Estonia

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2017

Year:

Marine micro-robotics for new ecological matter cycles at Tallinn Architectural Biennale 17

A bio-artificial system which responds to the current challenges, interacting with marine ecosystem through the definition of possible marine material cycles, and proposing a mechanism of plastic extraction, recycling and reuse by the means of nano agent systems.



The project questioned how small robotic agents can become a new transitional system from built to unbuilt environments and which, in symbiosis with the natural species of the Baltic sea, could act on site, creating interaction between natural and artificial systems.

The installation worked with Baltic Sea water, firstly extracting the contained micro-plastics from the marine environment and then, passing through the complex digestion system of nano robot, bio aggregating its particles into a material which can be reused for the further proliferation of this same marine environment.

Team

Maria Kuptsova, Raimund Krenmueller, Rodrigo Aguirre, Mathilde Marengo, Areti Markopoulou
Mehmet Berk Bostanci, Karthikeyan Dhanabalan, Thora H Arnardottir, Firas Safieddine, Ricardo Mayor Luque, Jessica Dias, Jesus Ariel Valenzuela Hernandez

Biology expert:
Nuria Conde Pueyo

Research collaboration:
Complex Systems Lab – UPF

Fabrication collaboration:
Barcelona Glass Studio: Agustina Ros y Ferrán Collado

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